Tamil Nadu: How vested interests kept media glued to Kamala Harris’s native village Thlasendrapuram

When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were declared the President and vice-president of the US, Kamala’s ancestral village Thlasendrapuram celebrated an early Diwali. Only that the villagers didn’t know about the ‘daughter of the soil’ till a few groups educated them with banners and buntings during the runup to the polls.